From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 06:24:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/15] scalar: implement the `version` command
Message-ID: <CAPig+cQAGxRrLUcPZtZqGEJ9RggRsDt0WJK+dgWmXtfCnZihOQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <73d08c0c8948340f6c08c1689b40900062db5b4a.1630359290.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 5:35 PM Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
<gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
> The .NET version of Scalar has a `version` command. This was necessary
> because it was versioned independently of Git.
>
> Since Scalar is now tightly coupled with Git, it does not make sense for
> them to show different versions. Therefore, it shows the same output as
> `git versions`. For backwards-compatibility with the .NET version,

s/versions/version/

> `scalar version` prints to `stderr`, though (`git version` prints to
> `stdout` instead).
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>